…seasons change, but some years winter hangs on longer than usual. Our Utah and Cali brethren and sistren may have easily accessible turns ALL YEAR LONG with 700+ inches they’ve received. Hallelujah. We are doing alright ourselves in the PNW. Dual sport and tri-sport days are a plenty right now. MTB and BC skiing are …
There is definitely a persistent weak layer to be wary of since the early snow at the ground level has become quite rotten. I hate to say it, but we likely need a significant weather event (rain… probably) to saturate down into that junk, or to create an ice bridge. Stay safe friends, and in …
Well, it’s that time of year where… I switch my local forecast observations from what is happening in town to what is happening in the mountains. I usually have multiple tabs on my browser open (e.g. NOAA, snowforecast.com, webcams from the ski hill and mountain passes, etc.) in hopes to ascertain where the snow will …
…please bring snow! And while I’m at it could you look to deliver snow that is well bonded to the layers below? It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if it was blower and waist deep too. Thanks for helping out the BC ski community. Sincerely, All of the BC Ski Friends BC SKI LINKS ROUND-UP… XMAS …
Does your home resort have an uphill policy that meets backcountry skiers needs? Uphill is definitely a different beast compared to true backcountry skiing, but there are so many benefits to resort uphilling… dialing in gear, developing fitness, practicing skills in a safe setting, connecting with friends, getting newbys oriented to the sport, apres, and …
Please excuse the pandemic hiatus, but we are back and aiming to deliver some BC ski goodness again this winter. I had some technology troubles #2020 that I hopefully are all smoothed out (thanks to the help of a kind BC ski friend). Now I am ready to unload six months or so of links, …
Old-Man-Winter is finally making a return to the PNW after a stretch of high pressure. I snuck in a dawn patrol before work Friday morning and am stoked to get that back into my weekly schedule. If you are in the INW of the PNW and utilize the uphill policy at Mt Spokane don’t forget …
Happy Thanksgiving BC ski amigos (in North America)! The local hills are close to bare in my neck of the woods, but ULLR (the norse snow god) has brought a few feet of snow a couple hours north in the Selkirks. I had the fortunate opportunity to sneak up there on Saturday and get my …
A text and email thread began last night about skiing this week. It took most of us by surprise since this group lives in the lower 48, but the Kootenay Boundary Forecast by Avalanche Canada has just started to forecast and apparently there is 72cm (approx 30in) of snow to slide upon. They say the …
Any backcountry ski friends tracking the headlines this week pertaining to the website backcountry.com? Well, since I had just locked and loaded my little website URL this summer with the word “backcountry” in the title, I waited and watched the headlines closely this week. Backcountry.com appeared to be bullying other companies by sending “cease and …